ENGLISH NEWS. House of Commons Monday, July 13. MINISTERIAL RE-ELECTIONS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 148, 30 December 1846, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS. House of Commons Monday, July 13. MINISTERIAL RE-ELECTIONS.

The following members, who had vacated their seats hy the acceptance of office under the new Administration, were introduced, and retook the oaths and their seats on their reelection :—: — Lord J. Russell (First Lord of the Treasury.) Lord Palmerston (Foreign Secretary) Sir G. Grey (Home Secretary.) Mr. C. Wood(Chancellor of the Exchequer) Sir J. C. Hobhouse (President of the Board of Controul.) Mr. Labouchere (Secretary for Ireland.) Colonel Fox (Surveyor of the Ordnance). Captain F. H. Berkeley (a Lord of the Admiralty.) Admiral Dundas (a Lord of the Admiralty) Lord M. Hill (Controller of the Household) Mr. J. Jervis (Attorney-General)

The Ministry. —The appointments to office in the Royal Household were formally made yesterday at the Queen's Court. They were thus appropriated : —Lord Chamberlain, the Earl Spencer; Lord Steward, the Earl Fortescae; Master of the Horse, the Duke of Norfolk; Vice-Chamberlain, Lord Edward Howard. At the same Court, Earl Spencer, Lord Edward Howard, and Mr. Milner Gibson, were sworn in of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council. —Globe, July 9. A Cabinet Council, the first of the new Ministry, was held at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the official residence of Lord John Russell, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Xord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse, Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Clanricatde, and the Right Hon. H. Lahoueher*. The Council sat two hours and » hatf.—Times, July 13. Despatches were received on Saturday, at the Colonial Office, from the Gowraor of N«w Zetland.-—ifcrf.